Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-12-07
PRESENCE OF MIND.
How Men Should Act Under Try
ing Circumstances.
One of khe Handiest Attachments Known
to the Present Generation-The
Value of Keeping Ones Mind
In Sudden Exigencies

Nuony FSopic neeu presence OF mind,
writes A. W. Bellaw, in the Detroit FREE
t'reSS The art Of knowing just what to do
In sudden case of emergency is one of the
handiest attainments you can have along in
your vest pocket Many people do not know
now 10 act, but sit In weak daze, which is
Just as bad as months DAYS for all the
good they do.
NOW, In case you fall out of the window.
or are are thrown out, keep your wits about
you; calculate the height: if there are peo-
pie on the walk yell to them to get out of the
way, or tell them they will get hurt; this
takes the responsibility off of YOU Don't be
In hurry TO reach the ground, it viii be
worse Tor you If you do. See that YOU are
gong down feet first, which is the safest
way. If there are boxes and things in the
way, have them removed before YOU get
there. Look at your watch and see if Won
have time to have a feather bed brought out:
you'll find it handy to light on. Come down
easy and airs well. If you drop down all in
lump 1t is dangerous, and without pres
ence OF mind you are likely to fall on some
one and injure him.
Ii lady falnts don't run away nor get
excited. Lay her in the shade with.her head
raised so as not TO muss her back hair: rim
her gloves open so that respiration NAV be-
GIN Take her teeth out on plate so they
VIII not choke her Call for air if there
am any. Wash the powder from her face
with cold, wet towel, and tell her to sniff
ammonia. If all things else fail, have some
woman in the crowd remark that her bon
net is one of last summers done over. but
TINS is the last resort, and often makes the
patient too strong and active on a sudden.
Should you fall into deep water and are
not able to swim, don't get excited and give
up for lost With heavy boots and clothes
on 1t is useless to struggle. Keep in mind
that the main support of life is air, and that
you are greatly in need of it, and don't get
to thinking of all the low, mean things YOU
have done in your life, and try to compare
the good ones with them, but sit on the bot
tom OF the river and pull off your boots,
and remove your coat, taking the valuables
out of the pockets, including the letters
your wife gave you to mail a week ago.
Don't yell for help while you are down
there, nor sit there and give up, unless the
weather is as hot as it has lately been, but
give spring and try to reach the ton.
you'll ind that is the best place for YOU, and
when you get to the top stay there tin helm
comes, and don't try to see how many times
you can go down without realizing on your
insurance money. If they take YOU out in
sensible, have them roll you over log. and
stand you on your head in the fence corner
to drain. Don't let them leave YOU to 90 for
the coroner before you really are in a dead
condition.
Once, may be, before you die YOU might be
going along in one of your most jovous
moods and Unexpectedly come upon an awful
man you owe! Don't allow yourself to be-
come paralyzed and give up without an eff
fort. You should have had your eyes out.
but 1t is too late now, even to dodge into n
millinery shop and ask what is the price of
grlndstones, Keep your wits and nerve up
Shake hands and smile, but not ehastly.
Tell him that little amount YOU will nav
soon, for haven't you assured him Won yyould
twenty tinesl Inquire about his trade and
inform him he looks in excellent health. and
tell him mans gone round the corner who
owes you and break away, and keep off that
street after this.
If you are thunderstruck by lightning and
Knocked cold, look around and see what it
was that hit you before you associate il with
your wife and t1at-iron. You can easily
tell If you have any life left by trying to
move your limbs, or working your toes or
your ears. If you are alive, stay in the same
spot till the storm is over, and get where
lightning won't strike the next time. If Won
see storm coming get on feather bed.
but don't lie on feather bed all the time
expecting storms, or poverty will strike YOU.
When your car jumps the track and rolls
down the hill, keep your seat and don t leave
1T and go to standing on your head and cut-
ting other capers like you were out of your
mind. By leaving your. seat you are likely
to get into difficulty. To avoid the collision
always wait and take the next train.
Ii your hotel is afire don't get excited and
put the wash-stand out of the window and
get on it and ride down. Keep cool. Pack
your Vailse carefully, adjust your neckse
and arrange your bntton-hole flower. AL
ways leave the key at the office, so take it
out and deliberately wade through the
smoke to the stairway. The smoke won't
hurt you after you've ridden on st. Louis
street-cars. Slide down the bannisters. re-
port at the Office and settle your bill. AL
ways wake up in time, and don't let the fire
get too much start of you.
To wake up and find burglars in the room
Is trying on the nervous system and other
personal adjuncts Don't yell murder, nor
wake your wife; get over between her and
the wall quietly, and observe just how much
space there Is between the bed and the
wall Ii there Is no space at all YOU
Will be in most uncomfortable pre-
dicament unless the bed has castors. but if
you can, squeeze yourself down and lie there
securely until night and the burglars have
disappeared, then you can inform your wife.
and take an inventory of your goods and chat
ties at your leisure.
You will SEQ that there is nothing like
keeping ones mind lin sudden exigencies:
the body then is pretty sure to get through
all right